[WesternPacific]

mandatory service requirement

I have no problem with mandatory service. What I do have a problem with is the service that will be required by this Marxist president.

[Mouton]

I have to disagree with you on the mandatory service issue as I do have a problem with the idea. I can understand why there was compulsory service during most of our wars and for most of the cold war for military defense. This service thing can have a way of backfiring because of whom is at the top and I just don't mean der Leader. Voluntarism and community service should come from the heart, not at the point of a bayonet or worse as a “reward” for doing the right thing. On its surface it is benign but if you get past a cursory look, you will see it is another of the class warfare issues: gee, we can get Mr. welloff to sweep the streets for a year with this and that will look great to the multitudes.

Vince

[patriot08]

"On this occasion, we celebrate the holy month of Ramadan and we also celebrate how much Muslims have enriched America and its culture in ways both large and small." Barack Hussein Obama.

[WesternPacific]

I wrote, What I do have a problem with is the service that will be required

You more or less expanded on the point I made. I joined the service in 1971 when there was a draft. It was understood, at that time, if your family had money, influence, or both you would not have to serve. It was the system that was broken not the requirement of service.

We may disagree, but I still see nothing wrong with mandatory service. With today's Volunteer Service, which is working out great and my son is a member of, we have a portion of the population supporting our country and a portion who could not care less.

I look at it like government housing. If it is free to the occupants, it is not taken care of. I have seen new government housing units become cesspools within months because the occupants are not shareholders and have nothing invested in it.

Freedom and citizenship should not be free. Without a personal investment both can and will be taken for granted.